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The six major challenges facing property developers

Market analysis by Unlatch , the new homes sales progression and aftercare platform for developers and housebuilders, reveals that a -16% drop in construction workers is just one of many challenges currently facing Britain’s housebuilding industry; a list that includes the rising cost of materials and the notorious EWS1 form.

A declining workforce

Over the past five years,...

Help to Buy on the decline, but will housebuilders miss it? 

The latest research by the new-build sales optimisation platform, Unlatch , has revealed that the impact of the Help to Buy scheme within the new-build sector has been in slow decline, despite Help to Buy transactions still accounting for a sizable proportion of homes delivered by the nation’s three biggest housebuilders.

Launched in 2013, Help to Buy has been helping homebuyers onto...

All but one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders have seen a pandemic decline in output and revenues

The latest research from Warwick Estates has revealed that just one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders has seen an increase in both revenue and homes delivered to the market during a tough year overshadowed by COVID-19.

Warwick Estates analysed eight of Britain’s biggest housebuilders based on the latest data available on revenues and how they performed in 2020 when compared to 2019...

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Housebuilders donate £1,000 to help South Devon zoo and conservation charity

A much-loved local zoo and conservation trust in South Devon is celebrating an unexpected windfall from leading housebuilders Barratt and David Wilson Homes, who have donated £1,000 to help it recover from the challenges of Covid.

Shaldon Zoo and Wildlife Trust, which carries out vital conservation work all over the world, has suffered major financial losses during the lockdown as it...